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04/28/2008, 9:10am, EDT
Monday, April 28th
Three million 3G iPhones in June, report claims
The 3G iPhone is not only coming in June, but its early production numbers are already known, a Taiwanese newspaper claims. Industry publication Commercial Times is citing institutional investors, who say that Foxconn has landed a contract to begin assembling new iPhones for shipment in June. While this echoes earlier reports from March, CT says it has also obtained information from component suppliers, who have been told by Apple that the should begin preparing material supplies by the end of May.
Foxconn is expected to ship over 3 million 3G iPhones in June, and produce as many as 24 to 25 million units before Apple switches to another product. Foxconn already assembles the current 2.5G iPhone.
A 3G iPhone has long been expected this year due to a brief mention by the CEO of AT&T, but until recently it was assumed it would ship late in the year; recent reports have, however, increasingly pointed to a June/July launch, much as with the original iPhone. This would also coincide with the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware and its accompanying App Store.
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But shouldn't those material suppliers be preparing their stuff before the end of may, not by the end of may? But, I guess, Apple just needs them all available for WWDC, although it just seems stupid to think they'd use a developer conference to launch the 3G iPhone. The SDK, maybe (but, then again, what is there to really to keynote on with that, since all attendees already have it, most likely, so I guess it comes down to the App Store). Of course, there's probably going to be some worthless developers at this thing that are going to expect to hear some exciting early news about 10.6, not realizing no one will be using 'old fashioned' computers in a year. It's all about the iPhone!
The 3G iPhone will probably launch separately, with an announcement brouhaha happening a week or two before WWDC.
in a short article about a taiwanese newspaper report you've managed to include edge, wwdc, sdk, the app store, worthless developers, 10.6 and old computers and of course the obligatory retort to a previous poster.
splendid stuff. really. it would have been perfection had you managed to quote yourself somewhere in there.
LOL, Nat
And making fun of my name! Oh, that's so funny! Man, shouldn't you kids be doing your homework by now???